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Mark Weisbrot is an American economist, columnist and co-director, with Dean Baker, of the progressive think tank Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) in Washington, D.C. and the President of Just Foreign Policy, a non-governmental organization dedicated to reforming United States foreign policy. He earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan. He is co-author, with Baker, of Social Security: The Phony Crisis (University of Chicago Press, 2000), a refutation of prevailing wisdom on reform of the Social Security system in the United States. He has written on economic policy and the economies of developing countries, with special attention to Latin America. He has been described as an adviser to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and supporter of his policies.

Center for Economic and Policy Research

Weisbrot has been a critic of IMF-supported policies in developing countries.

He has also been a critic of globalization. According to CEPR, Weisbrot documented in a 2001 paper long-term economic growth failure in the vast majority of developing countries since 1980, as well as the consequent decline in progress on such social indicators as life expectancy and infant and child mortality. The evidence did not indicate a broad decline in the indicators measured, nor that these declines were the result of policy changes, but CEPR says that there is "certainly no evidence in these data that the policies associated with globalization have improved outcomes for most low to middle-income countries". In a 2005 followup, CEPR said that, "contrary to popular belief, the past 25 years (1980–2005) have seen a sharply slower rate of economic growth and reduced progress on social indicators for the vast majority of low- and middle-income countries", and that, "'It is generally difficult to show a clear relationship between any particular policy change and economic outcomes, especially across countries. There are many changes that take place at the same time, and causality is difficult to establish. It is certainly possible that the decline in economic and social progress that has taken place over the last 25 years would have been even worse in the absence of the policy changes that were adopted."

Columnist and author

Weisbrot writes a column for The Guardian, and an opinion column on economic and policy issues that is distributed nationwide by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. His opinion pieces have appeared in The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times/International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe and The Nation. He has written for and been interviewed by online magazines such as SocialistViewpoint, Solidarity, "an independent socialist organization", Z Communications, Common Dreams NewsCenter, The Huffington Post, and Alternet, both as original work and as republication of syndicated columns. He has appeared on national and local television and radio programs, including CBS, the PBS Newshour, CNN, the BBC, National Public Radio and Fox News.

Latin America

Weisbrot has contributed testimony to Congressional hearings, in 2002 to a House of Representatives committee, on Argentina's 1999–2002 economic crisis and in 2004 to the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on the state of democracy in Venezuela and on media representation of Hugo Chávez and of Venezuela.

Weisbrot has been described as the "intellectual artifice" of Bank of the South, first proposed by Venezuela's Chavez. In a reference to freedom of speech and the press, and human rights in Venezuela when journalists denounced alleged government aggression, according to Venezuela's El Universal, Weisbrot said that Venezuela was one of the least repressive countries in the Western hemisphere. Weisbrot advised Oliver Stone on South of the Border, a 2009 film about Chavez which was not well received by US critics. According to a 2004 National Review article, the Venezuela Information Office (VIO)—a lobbying agency whose goal is to improve the perception of Venezuela in the US—"coordinates a media response team" that includes "representatives from the Center for Economic Policy and Research"; Weisbrot was a signer on a letter to the editor of the Center for Public Integrity, saying that their statements about the VIO were "highly misleading".

References

  1. "Board". Just Foreign Policy. Retrieved January 24, 2010.
  2. "Mark Weisbrot". Just Foreign Policy. Retrieved January 24, 2010.
  3. "Mark Weisbrot". Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). Retrieved January 24, 2010.
  4. ^ Template:Es icon Pino, Soledad. "Mark Weisbrot entrevista: El modelo americano no es mejor que el europeo" (PDF). La Clave. CEPR. Retrieved January 23, 2010.  ...se le considera el artifice intelectual del Banco del Sur, un proyecto impulsado por el presidente venezolano ... Segun fuentes cercanas, el propio Chavez consulta con cierta frecuencia a Weisbrot ...
  5. Lane, Walker (April 10, 2006). "An Anarchist At the World Social Forum". Fifth Estate. infoshop.news. Retrieved January 24, 2010. Economist Mark Weisbrot, an American adviser to Chavez, told me as we spoke in his room at the Hilton overlooking the hotel swimming pool, that the government's policies are 'gradualist reform.'
  6. Romero, Simon (May 18, 2008). "Chávez Seizes Greater Economic Power". New York Times. Retrieved January 23, 2010. Mark Weisbrot, a Washington-based economist who is broadly supportive of Mr. Chávez's economic policies, ...
  7. Template:Es icon "Critican que Miceli exponga en una reunión contra el FMI". Grupo Capital SA. Retrieved January 24, 2010. ... Mark Weisbrot, un conocidísimo defensor -o apologista, según sus críticos-, del presidente Hugo Chávez.
    * Pupovac, Jessica (December 28, 2005). "Chicago Turns Down Discounted Venezuelan Oil". The New Standard. Retrieved January 24, 2010. Weisbrot is a staunch supporter of the Chavez administration.
    * Oppenheimer, Andres (January 14, 2010). "What's behind Hugo Chávez's devaluation? Politics". Columnists: Andres Oppenheimer. The Miami Herald. Retrieved January 24, 2010. Mark Weisbrot, an economist with the left-of-center Washington, D.C.-based Center for Economic and Policy Research who generally supports Chávez's policies, told me that ...
    * Morley, Jefferson (September 28, 2005). "Thinking About Chavez". World Opinion Roundup. The Washington Post. Retrieved January 24, 2010. Marc Weisbrot, a Washington economist and supporter of Chavez, ...
    * "Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)". DiscovertheNetwork.org. Retrieved January 24, 2010. A longtime supporter of Chavez, Weisbrot, in a December 2002 article titled 'U.S. Intervening Against Democracy in Venezuela,' impugned the U.S. for sponsoring democratic opposition groups in Venezuela, organizations he dismissed as 'mostly managers and executives' who 'are trying to cripple the economy … in order to overthrow the government.'
    * Laksin, Jacob (January 16, 2007). "'Socialism or Death' in Venezuela". FrontPageMagazine.com. Retrieved January 24, 2010. Predictably, Chavez still has his defenders. In the United States, the task of condoning every new attempt to consolidate power as an affirmation of people's democracy in action has been taken up most prominently by the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Economic and Policy Research. The center's co-director, Mark Weisbrot, has reliably praised Chavez's Venezuela as a 'democratic' country and hailed the alleged success of the government's economic policies.
  8. Weisbrot, Mark; Ray, Rebecca; Johnston, Jake; et al. (October 2009). "IMF-Supported Macroeconomic Policies and the World Recession: A Look at Forty-One Borrowing Countries". Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). Retrieved January 24, 2010. {{cite web}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |author= (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. Keith, Tamara (April 24, 2009). "The Scrutinizing the role of the IMF". Marketplace. NPR. Retrieved January 24, 2010. Mark Weisbrot is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and a critic of the IMF.
  10. Penderis, Marina (October 29, 2009). "WORLD: IMF Has Long Way to Go – Even After 'Istanbul Decisions;". Inter-Press Service. Retrieved January 24, 2010.
  11. Weisbrot, Mark; Baker, Dean; Kraev, Egor; Chen, Judy (July 11, 2001). "The Scorecard on Globalization 1980-2000: 20 Years of Diminished Progress" (PDF). Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). Retrieved January 24, 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  12. Weisbrot, Mark; Baker, Dean; Rosnick, David (September 2005). "The Scorecard on Development: 25 Years of Diminished Progress" (PDF). CEPR. Retrieved January 24, 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  13. ^ "Mark Weisbrot: Op-Eds and Columns". Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). Retrieved January 24, 2010.
  14. Weisbrot, Mark (October 2003, Vol 3, No. 9). "Labor Day 2003: Nothing to Celebrate". Socialist Viewpoint. Retrieved January 24, 2010. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  15. "About Solidarity". Solidarity National Office. Retrieved January 24, 2010.
  16. "Suzi Weissman interviews Mark Weisbrot". Solidarity National Office. Retrieved January 24, 2010.
  17. "Mark Weisbrot". zmag.org. Retrieved January 24, 2010.
  18. "Mark Weisbrot". The Huffington Post. Retrieved January 24, 2010.
  19. Weisbrot, Mark (August 28, 2003). "Labor Day 2003: Nothing to celebrate". alternet.org. Retrieved January 24, 2010.
  20. "Argentina's Economic Meltdown: Causes and Remedies" (PDF). U.S. House of Representatives. March 5, 2002. Retrieved January 24, 2010. Full Committee Panel here.
  21. "Testimony of Mark Weisbrot on the state of democracy in Venezuela" (PDF). U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. June 24, 2004. Retrieved January 24, 2010. Full Committee Panel here.
  22. Template:Es icon "Promocionan Banco del Sur en Madrid". El Universal. September 19, 2007. Retrieved January 23, 2010.
  23. "Chavez and allies challenge IMF, World Bank". MSNBC. December 9, 2007. Retrieved January 24, 2010.
  24. Template:Es icon Matheus, Maria Elena (October 17, 2003). "Periodistas denuncian agresiones promovidas por el gobierno". El Universal. Retrieved January 23, 2010.
  25. "Chavez gets red-carpet treatment in Venice". MSNBC. September 7, 2009. Retrieved January 23, 2010. Also here.
  26. Time magazine described South of the Border as "lopsided and cheerleadery" and stated it lacked any nuance in its worldview. Variety said, "The docu offers little genuine information and no investigative research, adopting a style even more polemical than Stone’s earlier docus on Fidel Castro and Yasser Arafat." Fabiola Moura wrote that "While the movie is explicitly rosy in its picture of South America's politics, it's a tonic dose of a perspective rarely seen in U.S. media coverage of the region." National Public Radio says the film tells only one side of the story and gives "kid glove treatment" to Chavez and his allies.
  27. Forero, Juan (September 30, 2004). "Venezuela's government seeks to show that its oil riches are well spent". The New York Times. Retrieved January 24, 2010.
  28. Miller, John J (December 27, 2004). "Friends of Hugo: Venezuela's Castroite boss has all the usual U.S. supporters". National Review. Retrieved January 24, 2010. {{cite web}}: Text "publisher-findarticles.com" ignored (help)
  29. Bogardus, Kevin (September 22, 2004). "Venezuela Head Polishes Image With Oil Dollars". Center for Public Integrity. Retrieved January 24, 2010. Letter to the editor in response.

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